India's vast rail network

The world's third longest by track

22 million

passenger journeys per day

27,581

railway related deaths in 2014

  • 115,000km of track; 7,112 stations

  • 1.3 million staff in 2014-15

  • $25bn revenue in 2014-15

  • 5.29 times more likely to die on the road than the railways

Reuters